TLDR: bring the 2-2-2 lock already. it doesn’t matter if GOATS is dead or not.
Admittedly, tanks are much, much worse than healers in that regard, but even then - why is it people like to lock 3-6 DPS so much?
The answer, as always, is described in the Holy Bible of OW, written by Jeff. You can find it in description of Circles of OW Hell. There are 3 of them.
On first Circle, you are forced to solo-heal your team. You are completely alone, and a sole deciding factor in question of your team survival. Nobody is going to help you. Then, when you think it can’t get more stressful, those… let’s call them “people”, who instalocked 3+ DPS, start to yell at you in voice how they don’t receive enough healing. Then those unfortunate bastards stuck playing tanks join, but you can’t blame them - they are on their own Circle, and you, indeed, can not heal hard enough alone.
At this point, you are done. It doesn’t matter if you win or lose the said game - it will still feel horrible to play, and make you never want to play healer again. Just switch to Doomfist and have fun flying around the map! Or quit the match. **** it. At least you’ll tank those DPS instalockers SR together with yours. Find some minimal comfort in that thought, and, more importantly, ask yourself this question next time you’re considering playing healer and look at 3 DPS instalocks: “Why do I even bother?”
But there are 2 more, deeper and more miserable Circles. Both reserved for tanks, of course - that’s why nobody is playing them, and they are almost always the last role to be picked.
First of those tank Circles is for playing solo tank. Again, you are alone. The moment you die, your entire team falls apart and gets picked like helpless children. Nobody will have your back. Nobody will delay the inevitable if you die. And enemy team knows that, and are out for you blood, and your blood alone.
Again, your team is probably screaming at you how much you suck, and don’t create enough space for their DPS shenanigans. Why are you playing tank for those morons again? You don’t know. You heard Doomfist is more fun though - maybe it’s time to try him.
Third Circle coincides with first - you are playing tank, maybe even 2, but there’s only one healer on your team. I’ll spare you the lyrics, because the post is already long enough - natural reaction in that case is to get annoyed, irritated, scream at your team for objective lack of heals, and feel like never tanking again. Smash that H button, start instalocking DPS like the rest of them, and never think of playing that garbage tank role again.
“Freedom of choice” doesn’t fly anymore. It ALWAYS boils down to DPS instalocks, ruins experience of those who don’t instalock DPS, and make them consider joining the dark side. It needs to go, just like no limits hero selection needed to go back in the day. It always was the problem, and with amount of DPS and CC creep recently introduced, it’s much more of a problem now. Time to fix it. For good.
